Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#2501
of 909177 performers
Top 1%
Devon Bostick works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Devon Bostick appears in 17 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Devon. Oppenheimer is the clearest case: a film rated 8.2 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, transformation, quiet performance. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for crime, thriller, romance. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Bart Layton, Rich Lee, Christopher Nolan and others, Devon Bostick helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Oppenheimer (2023) as Seth Neddermeyer · Words on Bathroom Walls (2020) as Joaquin · Okja (2017) as Silver
Career snapshot
Ranked #2501 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
17
2004–2026
Career length
22 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
8.2
Oppenheimer
Average Nutevio score
6.0
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
8.0
Oppenheimer
Most frequent director
Thor Freudenthal
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Thor Freudenthal
Most common genre
Thriller
7 titles
Average runtime
1h 41m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.3
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.4 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Okja, Regression, The Art of the Steal — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.4
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.4
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Saw VI, Saw IV, Land of the Dead.
Most productive era
2020s
7 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 4.91 film | 7.31 film | 5.55 films |
| Action | — | 7.31 film | — |
| Thriller | 5.94 films | 5.61 film | 6.02 films |
| Comedy | — | 6.44 films | 5.82 films |
| Crime | 6.21 film | 6.21 film | 7.01 film |
| Romance | — | — | 4.53 films |
| Horror | 5.94 films | 5.61 film | — |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2004Godsend
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Zachary Clark Wells.
Highest rated performance · Career peak
2023Oppenheimer
8.2 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Mile End Kicks
The current state of the argument, as Archie Webber.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
17 of 17 films
as Seth Neddermeyer
Directed by Christopher Nolan
as Silver
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
as Devon
Directed by Bart Layton
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Seth Neddermeyer
Oppenheimer (2023)
Performance score7.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Seth Neddermeyer gives Devon Bostick a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Joaquin
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Performance score7.5
Words on Bathroom Walls asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Joaquin is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Silver
Okja (2017)
Performance score7.2
Okja asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Silver is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Rodrick Heffley
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
Performance score7.1
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Rodrick Heffley is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Seth Neddermeyer
Start here. Oppenheimer is the clearest statement of what Devon Bostick does — accessible, 181 minutes, and rated 8.2 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Devon at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011)
A deliberate change of key after Oppenheimer — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Okja (2017)
A deliberate change of key after Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Words on Bathroom Walls (2020)
Keeps the drama register of Okja but asks for a colder reading of it.
Crime 101 (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Words on Bathroom Walls — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Thor Freudenthal
Director
2 films together
Notably Words on Bathroom Walls
Nick Hamm
Director
1 film together
Notably Godsend
George A. Romero
Director
1 film together
Notably Land of the Dead
Darren Lynn Bousman
Director
1 film together
Notably Saw IV
Bong Joon Ho
Director
1 film together
Notably Okja
Kelly Oxford
Director
1 film together
Notably Pink Skies Ahead
Christopher Nolan
Director
1 film together
Notably Oppenheimer
Rich Lee
Director
1 film together
Notably War of the Worlds
Bart Layton
Director
1 film together
Notably Crime 101
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Thor Freudenthal
Director
2 films together · 7.0 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
Words on Bathroom WallsChristopher Nolan
Director
1 film together · 8.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OppenheimerBong Joon Ho
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
OkjaBart Layton
Director
1 film together · 7.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Crime 101George A. Romero
Director
1 film together · 6.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Land of the DeadDarren Lynn Bousman
Director
1 film together · 6.2 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Saw IVKelly Oxford
Director
1 film together · 5.7 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Pink Skies AheadRich Lee
Director
1 film together · 5.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
War of the WorldsNick Hamm
Director
1 film together · 4.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
GodsendSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Oppenheimer
as Seth Neddermeyer
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Oppenheimer
as Seth Neddermeyer
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Oppenheimer
as Seth Neddermeyer
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Oppenheimer
as Seth Neddermeyer
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
Oppenheimer
as Seth Neddermeyer
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Devon Bostick has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Career Achievement
Awarded
22 years of relevant work — not merely a long career, but a long career of choices.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Thriller Legend
Awarded
7 catalogue titles in thriller, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Oppenheimer
as Seth Neddermeyer
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Crime 101
as Devon
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mile End Kicks
as Archie Webber
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Regression
as Roy Gray
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Okja
as Silver
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Okja
as Silver
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Mile End Kicks
as Archie Webber
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
War of the Worlds
as Mark Goodman
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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